Bankers Quote by Benjamin Franklin

The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the…

— Benjamin Franklin

The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the…

— Benjamin Franklin

The colonies started to issue their own money and stopped using the Bank of England, which was what precipitated the war because you can't…

— Bruce H. Lipton

The thing that was bad about colonialism, and the thing which is residually bad in some of our aid programs, is that it involved…

— Paul Romer

“The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall span of Western history that…

— Gordon S. Wood

“Which demomstrates the sad poverty of English launguage...”

— Susanna Clarke

“The key ‘subtle influences’ were enumerated as: the rise of the city over the countryside, the loss of Britons’ maritime skills, the growth of…

— Charles Emmerson

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

— John Buchanan Robinson

“What the British had earlier than many other peoples was a framework of law and government that facilitated economic transactions.”

— Thomas Sowell

We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed…

— Indira Gandhi

The American revolution not only cost Britain the 13 colonies but also forced it to rethink the slave trade and slavery, and influenced its…

— Linda Colley

“England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware…

— Mary Wollstonecraft